J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Knock Bay, Skye 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Knock Bay, Skye’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Verso:
Knock Bay, Skye 1831
D26614
Turner Bequest CCLXX 90a
Pencil on white wove paper, 201 x 125 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 91 (D26615) at the head of the page is a sketch of Knock Bay on Skye and the Sound of Sleat from the east. Folio 91 also contains a sketch of Knock Castle (also called Castle Camus).

Thomas Ardill
March 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Knock Bay, Skye 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-knock-bay-skye-r1135048, accessed 26 April 2024.